Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hovhaness has written eight symphonies, but now regards with contempt all the music he wrote up to four years ago. Says he: "Western music probably reached its peak with Mozart, and certainly with Beethoven. Since then, more & more it has become overloaded with superficial harmony; like some baroque building it seems about to collapse with ornamentation...
More for Farmers. Despite the sharp drop in commodity prices last month, farm income in the first quarter of this year is expected to reach a peak of $6.4 billion. For farmers, the only effect of the commodity drop, reported the Department of Agriculture, was to cut the size of their increase over 1947 from 12% for the month of January to an estimated 6% for the first quarter...
Like Old Times. The auto industry, not yet feeling the effects of the coal mine stoppage, expected to make more than 1,250,000 units in the first quarter, about equal to the peak prewar total. For customers awaiting new cars, the volume was not so cheering as it seemed: 27% of it would be in trucks, compared to an average of about 20% prewar...
...voice against Russia and also against its erstwhile hero, Henry Wallace. It had paid its way for only one year (1944-45). It had snooted advertising for six years, then found few advertisers wanted to come in when it opened its columns to them. Its circulation, which hit a peak of 164,686 in 1946, was down to 140,834 last week...
Consumer resistance to high prices was the chief cause of the biliousness. Yet most manufacturers did nothing to cure it by cutting prices even though hide prices are down 15 to 25% from last fall's peak. Instead, they cut production in hopes that shortages again would make prices more palatable. A few shoe men talked of price cuts-but only vaguely...